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Enduring Love written by Ian McEwan performed by David Threlfall on Audio CD (Unabridged)

Enduring Love written by Ian McEwan performed by David Threlfall on Audio CD (Unabridged)£39.99

One windy spring day in the Chilterns Joe Rose's calm, organised life is shattered by a ballooning accident. The afternoon, Rose reflects, could have ended in mere tragedy, but for his brief meeting with Jed Parry. Unknown to Rose, something passes between them - something that gives birth in Parry to an obsession so powerful that it will test to the limits Rose's beloved scientific rationalism, threaten the love of his...

Machines Like Me written by Ian McEwan performed by Billy Howle on Audio CD (Unabridged)

Machines Like Me written by Ian McEwan performed by Billy Howle on Audio CD (Unabridged)
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ISBN:  9781786142252
Genre - Main:  Fiction
Genre - Specific:  Modern
Duration:  660 mins
Length:  Unabridged
Author:  Ian McEwan
Performer 1:  Billy Howle

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Random House presents the audiobook edition of Machines Like Me by Ian McEwan, read by Billy Howle. Britain has lost the Falklands war, Margaret Thatcher battles Tony Benn for power and Alan Turing achieves a breakthrough in artificial intelligence. In a world not quite like this one, two lovers will be tested beyond their understanding. Machines Like Me occurs in an alternative 1980s London. Charlie, drifting through...

life and dodging full-time employment, is in love with Miranda, a bright student who lives with a terrible secret. When Charlie comes into money, he buys Adam, one of the first batch of synthetic humans. With Miranda’s assistance, he co-designs Adam’s personality.

This near-perfect human is beautiful, strong and clever – a love triangle soon forms. These three beings will confront a profound moral dilemma. Ian McEwan’s subversive and entertaining new novel poses fundamental questions: what makes us human?

Our outward deeds or our inner lives? Could a machine understand the human heart? This provocative and thrilling tale warns of the power to invent things beyond our control.

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